Send My Love to Anyone | Issue 40

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I’m excited to share Issue 40 with you which includes Phoebe Wang’s essay “Becoming Crew” from her new collection Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft, and Community; Hollay Ghadery “On Writing While Neurodiverging”; two poems from Myna Wallin’s latest collection, The Suicide Tourist; three poems from Kirby’s latest collection, she, translated into French by poet Jérôme Melançon; “A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Has Fallen,” an old story of mine from 2002, and ICYMI Issue 40’s Gatherings.

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Will I make it will I make it will I?

It’s a few minutes past five on a sharp spring afternoon. I gaze ahead at the dove-grey slice of lake. It’s not far, but there are so many crosswalks and intersections slowing me down. Every time a big red hand goes up, I’m forced to stop running. I suck in big breaths of air, check my phone, and wedge my body ahead of the other pedestrians. People—there are so many people in my way. Office workers power-walking to Union Station, tourists walking three or four abreast, couples arm in arm, Blue Jays fans clogging York Street near the stadium. I jog underneath the Gardiner Expressway and across streetcar tracks toward the waterfront. To anyone watching, I look like another irritable, impatient Torontonian. I feel like I’m fleeing and chasing something at the same time.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Phoebe Wang | Issue 40","publishedBylines":[],"post_date":"2024-09-28T04:45:49.592Z","cover_image":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f... My Love to Anyone","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f...
When my first book came out in 2021—Fuse, a memoir of mixed race identity and mental illness that dove into my long history of eating disorders, addiction, OCD, self-harm, and anxiety—many readers commented on its unusual structure. Unlike many memoirs, it’s not chronological. It's structured thematically. A veritable Jackson Pollock of feeling. Any loose chronological organization owes thanks to my editor, who convinced me that as a memoir, I needed to root the reader in some vague notion of time.

Which was fair enough.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"Hollay Ghadery | Issue 40","publishedBylines":[{"id":21201715,"name":"Kathryn Mockler","bio":"Kathryn Mockler is the author of Anecdotes (Book*hug Press) which was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria.","photo_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazon... My Love to Anyone","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f...
Lithium—my saviour,
mummified me in cotton batting,
weightless.

I leave softer footprints.
The bloodhounds quiet,
curl up at my feet.

I feel blackness
peel off the walls,
and I am grateful.
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Then, one morning, I woke up to these beauteous translations by Jérôme to three poems from my new collection, she. It’s the first time (I’m aware of) my work has ever been translated (here, from English to French) and we’re delighted to share them with you. Enjoy.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"3 poems from \"she\"","publishedBylines":[{"id":16955065,"name":"KIRBY","bio":"The pansy. Not the cream puff. poetryisqueer.com ","photo_url":"https://bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-... First Time","id":149634339,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":0,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"Send My Love to Anyone","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f...
I wrote this story many years ago, and it was one of the rare writing experiences I’ve had where I felt like I was channelling the story or rather the story was being channeled to me—not quite sure how channeling works, but that’s what it felt like.

Has that ever happened to you? It’s quite and experience, and I’m not sure I’d even believe it if it hadn’t happened to me.","size":"lg","isEditorNode":true,"title":"A Young Boy on Whose Father a Tree Had Fallen","publishedBylines":[{"id":21201715,"name":"Kathryn Mockler","bio":"Kathryn Mockler is the author of Anecdotes (Book*hug Press) which was a finalist for the 2024 Trillium Book Award and shortlisted for the 2023 Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She teaches creative writing at the University of Victoria.","photo_url":"https://substack-post-media.s3.amazon... My Mind","id":149696033,"type":"newsletter","reaction_count":0,"comment_count":0,"publication_name":"Send My Love to Anyone","publication_logo_url":"https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f... the ArchiveSupport Send My Love to Anyone

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